The Poor Fisherman (Le Pauvre pêcheur), 1897

Not on View

portfolio Title

L'Album des Peintres-Graveurs

Medium

lithograph in purple on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 43.3 × 57.3 cm (17 1/16 × 22 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

Accession Number

1975.16.1

Artists / Makers

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (artist) French, 1824 - 1898

Ambroise Vollard (publisher) French, 1867 - 1939

Auguste Clot (printer) French, 1858 - 1936

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, on stone, in purple: P. Puvis de Chavannes; lower right, in graphite, by later hand: C35977; verso, lower left, in graphite: 18765; verso, lower right, in graphite: B-27, 982; lower right, in graphite: 96 [encircled]

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

2021: Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2021-2022.

Bibliography

1944: Johnson, Una E. Ambroise Vollard Editeur, 1867-1939; an appreciation and catalogue. New York: Wittenborn & Co., 1944, no. 131.